Op-ed on the beginning of the new political crisis in Bulgaria only a year since the last elections, the issue is deeper than policies. Monday evening, 1st of December, hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians gathered in possibly the biggest protest since the 90s, when the state went bankrupt and inflation reached 2000%. While many English-speaking media frame it as merely unrest against the proposed 2026 budget, this misses the bigger picture. At the same time, Bulgarian legacy media refuses to...